Medicine's Eileen Anderson expresses the need for patient engagement

Patient engagement is the secret to smarter research—here’s how to nail it

Cure: Eileen Anderson, director of education, bioethics and medical humanities at the School of Medicine, expressed how she can't imagine effective translational work without having patients involved. “We develop some amazing things in the biosciences and biotechnology, but we aren’t always understanding patient experience and patient needs. So, we’re sometimes solving problems patients don’t have—and not solving the ones they do," said Anderson.